On the evening of December 5, 1876, the glorious Brooklyn Theatre caught fire, trapping its audience in a nightmare of flame and smoke. The theater sat near Brooklyn City Hall (today’s Brooklyn Borough Hall), and the blaze which destroyed it could be seen as far away as Prospect Park. The horrible truth was revealed in… Read More The post The Terrible Brooklyn Theater Fire: The Forgotten Gilded Age Tragedy appeared first on The Bowery Boys: New York City History.
